Historian Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to…

— F. Sionil Jose

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“History books are a record of events which bring us to the world in which we live today.”

— Ian Davies

“Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.”

— Sara Sheridan

“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.”

— A.H. Septimius

“A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history.”

— Federico Gamboa

“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth,…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

“As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.”

— Sara Sheridan

“History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.”

— Terry Goodkind

“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.”

— Judith Geary

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing